even greater than prison he fears. is it collusion are russia? is it he met with julian assange? i think robert mueller, even apart from paul manafort, is closing in on the truth about what happened with wikileaks. this document that nbc news has obtained is very interesting. and illuminating that suggests there was at least advanced knowledge about the wikileaks dump, if not coordination. how much stock do you put in, barbara, manafort s denial and wikileak s denials, their vehement denials? not much. i think they have proven themselves to be liars in the past, particularly paul manafort. it s certainly in his interest if he won t cooperate and is willing to go to prison rather than tell the truth, i don t think it takes much more to lie about his meeting with julian assange. that s an objective fact though that i think can be proved or disproved. i think it s an easier fact to prove other than what s in someone s mind, that s harder to
a clerical error has revealed a u.s. prosecutor s efforts to diet wikileaks founder julian assange. they posted thousands of e-mails stolen by democrats by russian agents in the 2016 election. assange spent the last six years in asylum in the embassy in london. julian assange has been holed up in this embassy behind me since 2007. they seemed to have inadverte inadvertently mentioned his name twice in an unrelated case. they have been investigating him since 2010. wiki leak was was recently
opposition. right now it is premature to see how this all connects together and if this was an inadvertent putting of asang s name on this. but there is too much cloud in here to not think there might be smoke or fire at the end of it. the obama administration was as big a faux or anti-fan of wikileaks. they were trying to find ways to charge asang for years. and they might have. michael hayden was here before and said he always assumed there was a sealed indictment. but we never it. it never went forward and my understanding jeffrey, correct me if i m wrong people in the obama administration didn t think there was a way to bring charges. it s hard to believe that donald trump s justice department under donald trump who is such a fan of wikileaks will do something to its found thaer the obama
administration never managed to. playing that sound is extraordinary, and it does show what the problem here is for donald trump politically. whatever the charge might be, we have the video of donald trump loving them to death. it s weird for a president to love someone being charged for anythi anything. it s important to point out what the first amendment issue is here because it is difficult. what happened in just a general way is someone gave classified information to wikileaks, to julian asang, and he published it. journalists do it. bob woodward has made a brilliant career of getting classified information and then publishing it. is that a crime? historically, the justice department has not but lots of people have stopped but how do you how do you
distribution of stolen e-mails to wikileaks. so the 12 charges that had to come out in july that robert mueller issued, that s already happened. that s already out there. what they did not do is say that asang and wikileaks committed a time in further distributing them. that question is unresolved and it may relate to the charges referred to here. the other issue is on the other side of the transactiontransact. mueller is obviously investigating roger stone and people around him for getting documents from wikileaks and possibly engaging in some sort of illegal activity there. all of that is related to each other, but we don t know where, if anywhere, charges are going to be filed. and of course one person we do know who was a big fan of wikileaks for some time was then candidate donald trump. i think we have to hear this